Writer, director, visual artist, maker of things.
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1981
This is 90-something minutes of frankly staggering footage of folks being shot, beaten, maimed, accosted, held hostage and brutalised (among others), all underscored by Schrader's clinical, terse prose and Chuck Riley's brilliantly cold and cruel narration.
Quite often, something would be shown onscreen that would make me recoil and exclaim "Somebody captured that on-camera?!", and in that sense this reminded me of films like Titicut Follies and Orozco the Embalmer, another similarly forthright and confronting Mondo documentary about death.
Arguably…
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2018
Performances are solid, especially Viggo Mortensen, and it made me chuckle on a couple of occasions from some pretty sharp writing.
But aside from that, for the most part: 'Green Book' is a frustratingly shallow, painfully predictable, and really self-congratulatory/self-righteous piece of midday-movie filmmaking that just barely scrapes by.
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1981
This is 90-something minutes of frankly staggering footage of folks being shot, beaten, maimed, accosted, held hostage and brutalised (among others), all underscored by Schrader's clinical, terse prose and Chuck Riley's brilliantly cold and cruel narration.
Quite often, something would be shown onscreen that would make me recoil and exclaim "Somebody captured that on-camera?!", and in that sense this reminded me of films like Titicut Follies and Orozco the Embalmer, another similarly forthright and confronting Mondo documentary about death.
Arguably…
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2018
Performances are solid, especially Viggo Mortensen, and it made me chuckle on a couple of occasions from some pretty sharp writing.
But aside from that, for the most part: 'Green Book' is a frustratingly shallow, painfully predictable, and really self-congratulatory/self-righteous piece of midday-movie filmmaking that just barely scrapes by.
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